A strong relationship between the arts and politics, particularly between various kinds of art and power, occurs across historical epochs and cultures. As they respond to contemporaneous events and politics, the arts take on political as well as social dimensions, becoming themselves a focus of controversy and even a force of political as well as social change. (Wikipedia)
Art is defined by Aristotle as the realization in external form of a true idea, and is traced back to that natural love of imitation which characterizes humans, and to the pleasure which we feel in recognizing likenesses. (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
[image_with_animation image_url=”9309″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Carlos San Millan Doorzien – a Dutch word translated as “to see through.” In dutch art, doorzien referred to a painting that showed a view from one room into another, making the picture especially beautiful. Nicholas Maes, 1657 (Danish) Pieter de Hooch, 1660 (Dutch) …
‘Let it be felt that the painter was there; consciously looking at the objects in their light already conceived from the beginning.’Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) Pierre Bonnard drew obsessively, on his daily walks in the country before breakfast, at breakfast, at lunch, at dinner, loafing around the house and garden, in cafés, in the streets, out of …
A practical and theoretical treatise on the artisanal craft of pencil sharpening. The number one #2 pencil sharpener in the world, David Rees takes viewers through the delicate process of sharpening a pencil by hand. For more information, or to order your own pencil, contact David Rees through his website: http://www.artisanalpencilsharpening.com
Five Things You Might Not Know About Egon Schiele Egon Schiele, Standing Nude with Stockings, 1914 In his twenty-eight years on earth, Egon Schiele produced some of the most radical depictions of the human figure in modern times. Through his highly expressive, utterly uncompromising portraiture, he shoved away the parameters of self-expression, procreation, sexuality, eroticism and mortality …
Art Trumps Politics
A strong relationship between the arts and politics, particularly between various kinds of art and power, occurs across historical epochs and cultures. As they respond to contemporaneous events and politics, the arts take on political as well as social dimensions, becoming themselves a focus of controversy and even a force of political as well as social change. (Wikipedia)
Art is defined by Aristotle as the realization in external form of a true idea, and is traced back to that natural love of imitation which characterizes humans, and to the pleasure which we feel in recognizing likenesses. (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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